Thirteenth annual teacher placement survey national institutional teacher placement association

Abstract

The critical teacher shortage in the nation's elementary schools will continue for at least two more years while shortages of high school teachers for the 1947-1948 school year will largely be localized in such areas as agriculture, home economics, industrial arts, music, and physical education for girls. These facts were revealed from data received from two hundred institutions which devote part or all of their functions to the training of public school teachers. A large percentage of these institutions will have more graduates available for 1947-1948 teaching positions than were available in 1946. The supply, however, will not be sufficient to meet the nation's needs in the teaching areas where shortages have been critical the past two or three years. Thousands cf G. I. wives who were teaching the past several years are no longer available as well as other emergency teachers who because of age or inadequate training can no longer be made available for these critical teaching areas. During the war it was generally predicted that many of the G. I.'s who were preparing for teaching before they entered service would not, upon their return, continue their teacher training courses. A surprisingly large number of G.I.'s are completing these training courses and are decidedly interested in obtaining teaching positions for the 1947-1948 school year. The need for men teachers in such fields as physical education, coaching, social science, mathematics and science should not be critical for the coming year. In addition to the critical need for men teachers of agriculture and industrial arts there is a critical shortage of men for elementary and junior high teaching and for elementary administrative positions. Never in recent history of school finance have so many employing school officials and school boards been so busy in formulating more inviting salary schedules for the 1947-1948 school year than at present. A large number of towns and cities located in the Eastern, East Central, West Central, and Pacific Coast States have fixed mini-